FPA MEDICAL MANAGEMENT: What Goes Up Must Come Down
Today's San Diego Union-Tribune chronicles FPA Medical Management Inc.'s progression from "a poster child for San Diego's hot economy" to its present-day plight "on the precipice of financial disaster." The article notes that FPA went from generating more than $1 billion in revenue to being "unable to make a $2.6 million interest payment due last month" (Rose, 7/2). Click here to read the full article, or click FPA Medical Management to read past California Healthline coverage of the physician-management company's financial problems.
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